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LITERATURE. JERROLD'S MEN OF CHARACTER. —3 Vols. Colburn, London, 1838. A. few of these tales have already appeared in Black- Wood's Magazine," where they were much admired, espe cially the clever dramatic story of " Job Pippins," but the Majority of them are now published for the first time. We have read them with attention, and, on the whole, have been pleased ; but our satisfaction has not been without alloy. Though throughout the volumes there are abundant evidences of vigor, yet that vigor too often degenerates Into coarseness, and, for the most part, is of a repelling, tathe r than of a conciliatory or attractive character. Mr. Jerrold is too prone to look on the dark side of human na ture, and to play the part of an over-rigid moralist. In -1113 delineation of character, he is severe even to Monastic harshness, and scorns to make allowances Tor circumstances or situation. Thus, in his spirited tale of ‘4 John Applejohn," he has introduced to us a Party of reckless, mischief-loving, young Aristocrats about town, on whom he has expended all his powers of ascetic sarcasm, and whom he has taken prodigious pains to point o ut as objects fit only for the scorn and loathing of his readers, darkening all their lineaments, and exaggerating all their eccentricities, till they assume the semblance of Positive moral deformities ; when the severest justice might Well have been satisfied with making them the theme of o ast', good-h umoure d ridicule. We instance this scene , becau se it is in Mr. Jerrold's most marked and emphatic Manner, and because it is one of those which lie has elabo rated with the grea test care. That it is pointed and epi grantatic, and occasionally humorous, full of quaint con ceit, and throughout of vigor, we grant ; but we protest against its spirit, which is harsh and bitterly contemptuous, When it should have been light, and airy, and tolerant in the " al it!' of its humor. Mr. Jerrold will no doubt plead the ”th or i ty of the cynical Swift in justification of his acerbity ; but surely to launch the lightnings of scorching sarcasm a gainst a giddy-pated sprig of fashion, for so more heinous enormity than that of wrenching off door-knockers, and elop ing Ivith wooden Highlanders from tobacconists' shops, is not to imitate, but to travestie the Dean's manner 1 . But we wil lingly turn to the brighter side of our author's genius, Who possesses a rude, masculine vigor of understand ing, very novel and welcome in these days of crazy sentimentalism. He shows also much dramatic tact in bringing out the peculiarities of character, leaving his personages to speak for themselves, and evolve their cwn idiosyncracy, instead of adopting the narrative form, and speaking for them. Moreover, he has much energy s and animation of style, and has the rare art of so tricking out a common-place thought as to give it quite the air of a novelty. He is not, however, remarkable for skill in constructing plots, or grouping together incidents. His stories are too often improbable in their nature ; and he hurries them to a conclusion without the slightest re gard to propriety. In the tale of " John Applejohn," for instance, we imagine that we are just in the middle of it, and that one or two characters who have been vaguely alluded t o i n t h e fi rst c h apters, are a b out to b e f orma ll y Introduced to us, when, 10, we find we are at the end However, despite this blemish—which, after all, is a trivial one --" Men of Character" is a production of very consider able merit, and gives promise that when time and e xperi tienee, which rarely fail to bring toleration in their train, unless, indeed, a man is as incurable a cynic as Diogenes, shall have mellowed the tone, and softened off the sharp angles of Mr. Jerrold's satire, he will produce a work that the world." will not willingly let die." VIENNA AND THE AUSTRIANS. 2 Vats. London, Bentley, 1838. Mrs. Trollope's views of the Austrian character, and Austrian system of government, differ widely from those adopted by most preceding travellers. Prince Metter nich's policy she seems to think faultless ; and certainly she is not very far wrong as far as his government of Austria is concerned ; but his system presses hard upon the Italian States, and the majority of the tributary provinces, Which are held to their allegiance rather by coercion than cle mency. On this point, however, our author refrains from giving a decided opinion, contenting herself instead with expatiating on the blessings which the native Austrians en -4(1 under the sway of the most adroit and experienced sta tesman of the age. Mrs. Trollope frequently met this ' lll ustriou s individual in private society, and describes him 48 8 gentleman of the most polished manners and pre- Possessing exterior. " I had expected to see," she says, bc4 so on onl gu y a distinished man, but one who bore the impress of 1 his brow, and neither the seeing nor hearing Prince Metter tnch can e ver h ave di sappo i nted any one; his whole person, counte nance, and demea nor , are i n di cative of high station, comman di ng in tellect, and very finished elegance. He led me to dinner, and I had the advantage of his conve rsa ti on while it lasted ; for the ta bl e was not °Y o as round, but as l arge as king Arthur's, rendering genera l conver sation nof course impossi b le. The Prince is of middle height, rather thin tn otherwise, w ith h andsome and regular features; his hair is quite grey, and the prevailing e xpression of his countenance i s t h a t o f mild bnand evolence ; but in hi s l i ght, blue eyes, there is a character o f d eep and earnest thou g htf ulness that is exceedingly remarkable. His person manners are eminently dignified and graceful; and there is, d m h o a re i more over, told , such an air of calm, philosophical tranquillity in his aspect, that 0 7 e w ho c out of a hu n d red gentlemen, selected at hazard, to . selectthe or twenty.fiv e years had held a steady and unvacillatmg course, to ttered, all beyond the circl e o f hi s i nfluence had bl un d ere d, trembled, and I am very sure I should have made no mistake." Trollope's sketches of society in Vienna, of its va limis plac es o f pu b lic amusement, and the domest i c h a bi ts a nd manners of its beau monde, into whose magic circle she l'as, it , seems, admitted, th roug h the influence of the Princes s Amb assa d or, w h o b rought her acqua i nte d w ith andrneess INletterni c h, h er h us b an d' s t hi r d w if e , " a young lovely woman, with a piquante sauciness of manner, softened by a smile of exceeding sweetness ;"—these sketches are hit off, not co ldl y an d f orma ll y , i n a gent l eman - u sher s ort of sty l e, but in a spirit remarkable for its freshness and liveliness. But, indeed, throughout her volumes, Mrs. Trollope describes with singular felicity of touch. Her conceptions are quick and forcible, and she has the power of embodying them in language equally graphic and energetic. Tier account of her voyage down the Danube in a ricketty, amphibious vessel, half barge, half boat, which was ,con stantly manifesting a perverse disposition to tumble to Pieces, is full of picturesque power, especially those portions of it which describe the scenery of the river, some of which i 8 calculated to make that of the Rhine " hide its diminished head." Mrs. Trollope has an eye for ruins ; and the old castellated and monastic edifices of the Durrenstein and its l 'eighbourhood—a locality characterized by more than alpine gloom and grandeur—frown and look awful in her pages, like the ivied Rhenish castles in the verse of Byron. Of a far different, but not less striking character, are our authoress's descriptions of social life, as she witnessed it among the lower classes in the secondary German States. Here her humour comes into play, and she fearlessly gives vent to it, though without degenerating into caricature,— that fatal rock on which comic genius is so apt to split. We should not omit to mention, in closing our hasty notice of these delightful volumes, the excellence of the embellish ' Inents with which they are profusely studded. These are drawn and etched by Hervieu—a clever artist, whose illus trations are warm and glowing with life. His sketches taken on the spot, of the murderer in his dungeon, with the nlidnight lamp dimly gleaming on his pale, and almost sPectral, face ; and of the solitary gasthaus among the Passe s of the Tyrolean mountains, with the romantic back ground of wood and rock, seen through the half-open door of the hut, display considerable skill and vigor of execution. THOUGHTS OF THE TIMES. Longman, London, 1838. Mr. Brown, to whom we are indebted for this instructive little volume, is a gentleman who, it is plain to perceive, Possesses an enlarged and well-instructed mind, whose main s taple is sound common-sense. His " Thoughts" are not remarkable for their depth, nor yet for their originality ; still they are the results of long and diligent meditation, and -as such, are entitled to our respect. Those "on His tory" are, we think, the best, because they are the most carefully digested, and the most indicative of various scholarship. The author, however, considerably overrates t he moral influence of Jefferson in Europe. Washington 411(1 Franklin—the former, especially—exercised an influ !nee infinitely more commanding. With all his matter-of fact tastes, and constant parade of downright, worldly sa aeitY, Jefferson was little better than a dreamer—a visionary —whose one recipe for all existing social evils, was the establishment of democracies in the most revolutionary se nse of the term. Thus he would have regenerated Austria and Prussia, and shed the light of political know ledge on the benighted Russian serf—that is to say, acting on th e true Homoepathical principle, he would have cured one evil by the infliction of another ten thousand times we t likese* Mr. Brown' s " Thoughts on Poetry" are scholar and graceful, but they do not pierce to the marrow of the subject. They lie on the surface, and are deficient in the great charm of criticism, discrimination. The essay on the " Advantage of living in stirring Times" is far superior, for it displays not merely erudition, but a philosophical turn of mind. S .IBBA TI 0N ; HONOR NEALE, AND OTHER P OE MS. London, Moxon„ 1838. The author of this graceful little volume of poems is a clergyman, named Trench, who has evidently studied Wordsworth with deep attention, and formed himself on the model of that " master of song," though he is no mere servile imitator, but a gifted and reverential disciple. The poem entitled a " Walk in a Churchyard" is fully equal to the best of the Lyrical Ballads, both as regards fancy and reflection. Thirty or forty years ago, when such a sorry rhymer as Hayley was the Magnus Apollo of the day, a work like the present would have won Mr. Trench high and deserved renown as a poet ; but those times are past. We have been so glutted with poems of late years, and of such excellent quality, that we turn from the dainties with something like indifference, as the sailor turned from the turtle soup, on which he was obliged to mess five days in the week, when lying at anchor off the Bahamas. Though we cannot, therefore, promise the author a circulation pro portioned to its deserts, for his present volume, yet we are sure he will find many judicious admirers, who will look forward with interest to his next appearance in print. AN APPEAL ON BEHALF OF YOUNG MEN. London, Hatchard, 1838. Under this somewhat quaint title, the author, the Rev. Stephen Davis, has produced a volume full of good advice to the rising generation, and in which the best methods of education are pointed out with force and succinctness. SAUNDERS' PORTRAITS OF THE REFOR. II7IIRS.—P.4nr IV. Saunders, London, _lB3B. The present part contains, cleverly engraved, half ength portraits of Messrs. Byng, Poulett Thomson, and Wyse. The most characteristic likeness is that of the Right Hon. Member for Manchester, whose countenance expresses a world of shrewdness and discretion. In fact, Mr. Poulett Thomson—as the artist has delineated him—looks just like one who would think twice before he put himself to any inconvenience, or perilled his interests by supporting any measure or principle obnoxious to his patrons—a pecu liarity which he has lately fully developed, in his conduct as respects the Ballot. The Memoirs which accompany hese portraits are well written, and in a free, impartial spirit. THE Q UARTERLY JOURNAL OF AGRI CULTURE. Blackwood and Sons. We would ask no other proof of the general intelli gence of as agriculturist, upon matters connected with his business as a farmer and grazier, than that supplied by a knowledge of his being a constant reader of this excellent periodical. Wherever, in our rambles in the country we meet with the " Quarterly Journal of Agriculture," we are sure to find ourselves in a neighbourhood where skill unites with industry to multiply the fruits of the earth with the least possible toil to the labourer. Not the least of its re commendations is that its articles are all written by practi cal agriculturists—by persons thoroughly acquainted with the minutest details of the subjects upon which they write, and therefore in a condition to obviate those practical diffi culties which mere theorists could not even surmise. The present Number has eighteen articles on agricultural sub jects, and six-relating to the Prize Essays and Transac tions of the Highland Society. THE NEW STATISTICAL ACCOUNT OF SCOTLAND.—No. XVII. Blackwood and Sons. The Part of this excellent work, just published, contains an historical, ecclesiastical, statistical, and general account of the parishes of Dunino, Kennoway, Wemyss, Burnt island, Logic, Largo, and Ballingry, in Fifeshire ; and Dalmellington, Auchinleck, Straiton, Maybole, Dailly, Gir van, Barr, Ballintrae, Stevenson, and Old Cumnock in Ayr shire. It is embellished with a beautiful map of Forfar shire ; and is altogether a work most creditable to the ge neral intelligence of the Clergy of the Church of Scotland. Were the Irish Clergy to undertake a work of this kind, and execute it with the fidelity characteristic of these pages, they would indeed confer a real benefit upon the nation. Is there no enlightened ecclesiastic in Ireland to set such an undertaking on foot ? Surely it might be done in such a spirit of impartiality as to make the truth known, w►thout hurting the feelings of any class of reli gionists. DICK ON DIET AND REGIMEN. lnittaker, London, 1838. Another treatise on Diet ! This is about the twentieth work of the sort that we have been called on to notice within the last three or four years, so greedy is an English public of information on dietetic matters. It is dedicated with singular propriety to an Alderman of the City of London, the author shrewdly enough conjecturing that in the estimation of such a man, no species of knowledge can be half so valuable as that which regards the science of eat ing and drinking. The work is penned in an easy, fluent style, but it is too full of crocbetty theories, as where the author attributes—we quote his own words—" much of the unmanly sentimentalism which now offends in Wordsworth's Bulwer's, Talfourd's, Taylor's pages," to the circumstance of their not making, like the ancients, "gymnastic exercise, friction, and baths, a part of their very philosophy !" THE RIVER AND THE DESERT. 2 Vols. Colburn, London, 1838. Under the quaint title of the " River and the Desart," Miss Pardee has given us two amusing volumes of travels and recollections of the Rhone and the Chartreux—in short, of all that is worth seeing in the south and south-eastern provinces of France. Her work is written in the form of letters, and is free from that elaborate ornateness of man ner and constant use of gaudy imagery, which disfigured her otherwise excellent production, entitled the " City of the Sultan." She here expresses her thoughts in the simplest and most unadorned language, and indulges in no set descriptions, but describes the impressions made on her by the scenery and manners of the various places she visited, in an easy, .off-handed manner, just as she would do in conversation with a familiar friend. Hence her sketches are full of spirit and vivacity. Nothing, indeed, can be more effective than her descrip tions of Marseilles and the surrounding neighbourhood, which she visited but a short time after the cholera had ceased its destructive ravages in that quarter. Her sketches of Vaucluse, and the enchanting scenery of Avignon, are not less vivid than picturesque. The designs for the lithographic engravings with which the " River and the Desert" are embellished, were, we suppose, furnished by the authoress herself. They are spirited and vrell selected. RAFF HALL. 3 Vols. Colburn, London, 1638. THE CABINET CYCLOPEDIA, No. C. London, Longman and Co., 1838. Three lively, pleasant volumes, written . ' n an unaffected style, and containing one or two characters which the reader will scarcely fail to recognise as drawn from actual life, not the still life of books. Mr. Sulivan is the author, a gentle man to whom we are also indebted for two volumes of tales and essays, entitled " Flittings of Fancy," which were pub lished a year or two since, and showed that the author had studied with effect in the school of Addison, Goldsmith, Mackenzie, and Iring. The present work, if it do much increase Mr. Sulivan's fame, will, at any rate, not diminish it. We have no space for extracts, or we could give several of an amusing character. This number, or rather volume, brings down the history of Russia from the death of Catherine the Second in 1796 to the Treaty of Tilsit in 1806—a period as memorable as any in the Russian annals. The first chapter, which is exclusively devoted to an examination of the public and private character of that extraordinary woman, and still more extraordinary Sovereign, is valuable for the flood of light which it throws upon the internal state of the e mpire during the busy reign of the Czarina. We know of no history of Russia which we can so well recommend to those who seek only for a good summary of the leading political events of that nation, as the one included in the historical series of Dr. Lardner's Cyclopasdia. A minute history of the Court of Russia would be invaluable, and we have heard that Count Nesselrode has collected ample materials for such awork ; but more than a century must elapse before the Imperial Government will permit its appearance. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 17, IS3B MONEY and COMMERCIAL MARKET. (From the Morning Papers of this Day ( Saturday). CHRONICLE.-Shares, on the whole, were rather languid to-day, but those of the Birmingham Railway were the only ones which fell materially. The old receded to 85 to 90 prem., and the new to 262 to 272 prem., but there was, we believe, no cause for it. Southampton, old, were quoted, at the ter mination of business at 452 to 461 per share; ditto new, 212 to 222 prem. ; Great Western, 27 to 28 per share ; Brighton, 3 to prem. ; Croydon, 1 dis. to par; ditto new, 6to 7 prem. ; Greenwich, 3to 2 dis. ; Manchester and Birmingham, 34 to ati- prem. ; Birmingham and Derby, l r to 2 dis. ; South-Eastern, 2 dis. to par; North Midland, 5i to 62 prem. Letters from Pernambuco, by way of Parahuba do Norte, dated the 7th ult., have been received. They mention that intelligence from Bahia to the 19th of January, which is three days later than the advices direct from thence, had arrived there, stating that the insurgents, and indeed all parties, re mained' in the same position, but that the former were begin ning to suffer severely from the want of provisions ; the cor don round the towns being so well watched that it was impos sible for them to receive supplies from any quarter. About eight hundred men had been sent to Bahia from Pernam buco, to assist in the blockade. The rate of exchange at Pernambuco on London was 31d. The province was every where tranquil. TIMES.-The quick voyages performed by merchant ves sels, as compared with those of the packet service, have given rise on many occasions to severe animadversions in the mercan tile circles of the city ; and the instance of the present arrival from Pernambuco may be cited in proof that they are not always unmerited. The Rival merchantman, by which the present advices have been received, sailed from the Downs about the Bth of December, and reached Pernambuco on the 6th of January, whilst the packet Reindeer, which left Fal mouth on the same day, arrived at Pernambuco only the 29th, or thirteen days afterwards. Nor is this a solitary example ; the James Matthewson, which sailed hence on the 29th of of December, or twenty-one days after the packet, entered the port of Pernambuco, on the 29th day of January, with the packet. The Papers from Rio Janeiro contain the official returns of the commercial movement of that port, which are worthy of notice, as tending to throw additional light on the extent to which the nefarious traffic in staves is carried on for that country under the Portuguese flag. The imports for 1836 were valued at 27,100,000 dollars, and those for 1837 at 26,583,000 dollars; the exports for 1836 at 18,711,824 dol lars, and those for 1837 at 15,362,642 dollars, which shows a falling off in the latter year of so:ne importance, principally attributable, no doubt, to the disturbed state of various dis tricts of the empire. It is remarkable that, with one excep tion, a greater number of vessels under the Portuguese flag entered the port of Rio than those of any other nation. The number under British colours was 88, and under Portuguese 83, the tonnage of the former being 17,074, and of the latter 17,334; and yet the commerce carried on in Portu guese bottoms, as compared with that of the British, was in significant, not amounting, for imports, to one-sixth, and being for exports, still less in proportion. Even France, with 17 ships only entered, of the tonnage of 3,640, carried on a traffic in imported and exported products of considerably more value than Portugal, to say nothing of other countries. The number of vessels engaged in the trade with Brazil and the nature of that trade will be easily comprehended when it is stated, that of the 83 Portuguese shipping reported, no less than 52 were entered out direct for Angola, after taking on board, of course, the particular descriptions of cloths and other commodities suited for slave dealing, whence they would return with cargoes of human beings for different points of the Brazilian coast. HERALD.—It appears by some of the Commercial advices received from New York yesterday, that during the two weeks preceding the sailing of the last packet, several highly impor tant legal verdicts have been made by the Juries in several of the Judicial Courts, in which the existing Usury Lsws of the United States were entirely annulled and set aside. It is also a singular fact, that in almost every instance, the Court charged under the faith of the Usury Laws, but the Juries, be lieving themselves to possess the right to controul the law and the fact, have returned verdicts against the summing up of the Court : thus establishing, says this advice, in the practice of those Courts, in the teeth of an express Statute, that money is an article of merchandise, and is, therefore, worth what it will bring. Verdicts of this character have been given both in the Superior Court and the Court of Common Pleas of New York. These decisions are said to have attracted much attention in New York, as well as in other cities of the Union ; they are much in accordance with the opinions of many of our monetary characters, who, for some years, have taken part in the dis cussions upon our currency system, and, though it would be far from prudent to adopt the principle in the ultra sense to iavhich these New York juries have carried it in their late de cisions, the matter is worthy of consideration, especially when the defective and oppressive nature of our usury laws enables the Flights, and the whole tribe of money lending scamps, to evade the law daily, at the expense and ruin of their victims. The following official return will exhibit the deficiency of the foreign trade of New York for the year 1837, as compared with the year 1836 :-- -The value of imports at the port of New Dollars. York for the year 1836 Ditto ditto first quarter of 1837 60,463,836 Ditto ditto fourth quarter (estimated) 8,132,846 68,596,682 Dollars. 118,886,194 Being a diminution in the value of im- N. 289,519 ortS. The amount of duties paid at this port in 1836 was Ditto ditto, 1837 17,114,305 9,430,124 7,634,185 Nlcney for commercial purposes commands a higher rate o interest, and there are evident symptoms that discounts will shortly not be effected under five per cent. The transactions in the'foreign exchanges have been rater flat to-day. On Paris they have receded to 25f. 85c. a 25f. 90c. On Amsterdam they are 12 44 to 12 5. On Rotterdam they are 124 to 12 5, and on Hamburgh the rule at 13 134 to 13 13A. There has been a considerable degree of buoyanee in the British Funds to-day, in consequence of the jobbers having recovered from the panic into which the news from the Cana dian frontiers threw them yesterday, and the public have rather felt inclined to resume their investments in Consols and the Three-and a- Half per Cent. Annuities. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1838. S irt,—The care you bestow on private Bills, leads me to request your attention to a Bill about to be introduced in Par liament by the Commissioners of Pavement for the town of Margate, Kent, which Bill will raise the local taxation of that town to upwards of 12s. in the pound. The present local taxes are already enormous, owing to the town being burthened with debts amounting to 110,000/., at 5 per Cent., consisting of mortgages of the pier, the paving rates, and Dover rate, &c. ; consequently the population is much distressed, one person in twenty-three receiving parochial aid, and 304 houses are un tenanted. But if this debt be augmented to 116,0001., as it will be if the Bill passes into a law, the results will be most painful to a large and impoverished community. The intended Bill is bad in principle, the present Commis sion nominating;the whole of the new Commission, (to consist of 30,) and the Commission will be filled with the— ist. Whole of the Directors of the Pier Company but one, (who are now labouring under serious charges brought against them by a Member of the Company, and also one of the Directors.) 2d. The Directors of a Steam Company, existing upon a loan borrowed of one the principle projectors of the Bill. 3d. Individuals involved to a serious amount with the Pier Company for pier dues. 4th. Men between 60 and 70 years of age. sth. That the rightof voting for Commissioners, ten of whom are to retire in 1839, will be confined to about one-fourth of the ratepayers. A MARGATE READER THEATRE ROYAL LIVERPOOL.—A report has found its way into the columns of some of our Weekly Con temporaries, stating that Mr. Clarke, under whose manage ment the Theatres Royal Liverpool and Manchester has been so ably conducted, had through declining health resigned that arduous post ; this is not the fact. The stage direction has been deputed to Mr. Chaplin, but the general management of the two theatres will be continued under the superintendence of Mr. Clarke, who has for so many years discharged that im portant duty with so much satisfaction to the public of Liver pool and Manchester. G. AND A. OLDRIDGE'S BALM OF COLUMBIA , 1, WELLINGTON-STREET, STRAND, LONDON.—To preserve the human hair has been for a long time the unsuccessful pursuit of innumerable chemists and naturalists, and although there have been various compounds professing to accompl ish this desirable end, still nothing really capable of restoring an d pre serving one of the most beautiful of nature's gifts was disco vered until 1821, when the result of a series of experiments, trie d for a long previous period, upon persons of all ages and consti tutions, fully established the infallible virtues of this m ost potent restorative. The wonderful virtues of this inesti mable compound in restoring the hair to its pristine beau t y , and the certainty with which its conservative agency opera tes in preserving it to the latest period, has received, as might be expected, the most flattering testimonials from the grateful thousands who have experienced its effects. Oldridge's Balm causes whiskers and eyebrows to grow, prevents the hair from turning grey and from falling off, and the first application makes it curl beautifully, and completely frees it from scurf. At the office of the Proprietors, C. and A. Oldridge, 1, Wel lington-street, Strand, the most convincing proofs of its infal libility may be seen in innumerable certificates from gentlemen of the first respectability. Sold at the Proprietors (as above), and by all respectable perfumers and medicine venders, price 3s. 6d., 65., and 11s. per bottle. No other prices are genuine. N. B.—The public are requested to be on their guard against counterfeits. Ask for "G. and A. Oldridge's Balm, 1, lington-street, Strand, London." LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE OF EARL ST. VlNCENT.—Captain Brenton has entitled himself not only to the thanks of the family and personal friends of the deceased Commander, but of the whole naval service, and of all who still look to it as the great bulwark of our country. We cannot close his volumes without recommending to general perusal the corresponpence of his Lordship, now first published, and published by his own authority. In a national, as well as in an individual sense, this is highly important and interesting. and the public has reason to rejoice in the permissicn given by Lord St. Vincent himself to Capt. Brenton to make the ex tensive selections from the public and private document; in possession, which arc hero submitted to the world.-- , Cour • Journal. COURT CIRCULAR Her Majesty rode out on horseback yesterday for three hours, attended by Lady Mary Stopford, Baroness Lehzen , Miss Cavendish, - Earl of Fingall, Earl of Uxbridge, Lord Liiffird, Hon. Colonel Cavendish, and Sir Frederick Stavin.. Viscount Melbourne had an audience of her Majesty yes terday. The Royal dinner party last evening at the new Palace in cluded Viscount Melbourne, the Treasurer of the Household, Hon. Charles Gore, and Mr. Rich, M. P. The Princess Augusta and the Duchess of Cambridge visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday at Marl borough-house. Count Pollon, the Sardinian Minister, had an interview with Lord Glenelg yesterday at the Colonial-office. A deputation, including Lord Bexley and Sir Robert H. Inglis, had an interview yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in Downing-street. The French Ambassador, and the Prussian and Grecian Ministers, transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. Mr. Mayers, agent for Barbadoes, Captain Cameron, and Mr. G. R. Young had interviews with Lord Glenelg yester day at the Colonial-office. The Duke of Richmond and the Barl of Burlington had in terviews yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, GREAT LANCASHIRE COURSING MEETING. This Meeting, which has excited unparalleled interest in the sporting circles, took place on Thursday last and three following days, for a Gold Cup, value 100 sovs., added to a subscription of S sovs. each. The following are particulars : Air. Gibbes's Bob Sawyer beat Mr. Deakins's Languish, Mr. Gayton's Mundig beat Mr. Harrison's Mischief, Dr. Brown's Chance beat Mr. Fellowes's Fancy, Mr. Horrocks's Haphazard beat Mr. Bennett's Sailor, Mr. Slater's Chancellor beat Mr. Craven's Whiskey, Mr. Ball's Banker beat Mr. Ridgway's Mayfly, Mr. Fisher's Rattler beat Mr. Hays's Cara, Mr. Fellowes's Fudge ran a bye, Dr. Brown's Dancer beat Mr. Houghton's Ann, Mr. Pol lock's Gameboy beat Mr. Horrock's Heroine, Mr. Hey's Historian beat Mr. Moore's Aloth, Dr. Brown's Sport beat Mr. Jolly's Young Bolivar, Mr. Hutchinson's Nelson beat. Mr. Purcer's Playful, Mr. Hey's Carlos ran a bye, Mr. Reddish's Roger beat Mr. N. Shaw's Spondee, Mr. Harriot's Hops beat Mr. Fisher's Mango, Mr. Ro binson's Empress beat Mr. Harrison's Ginger, Mr. N. Shaw's Spree beat Mr. Fleetwood's Fylde, Mr. AlLhell's Logician beat Mr. Fisher's Fairy, Mr. Aloore's Musquito beat Mr. Ogden's Swan, Mr. Swainson's Sailor beat Mr. Horrock's Hindrance, Mr. Hunt's Chance beat Mr. Hargreave's Byewater, Mr. Swainson's Sir Sid ney beat Mr. Jefferson's Janty, Mr. Ridgway's Elis beat Mr. Swan's Sweetbrier, Mr. Gibbes's Major beat Mr. Graham's Ca -1 pilly, Mr. Robinson's Juno beat Mr. Horrocks's Helen, Mr. Fleet wood's Flirt beat Mr. Jefferson's Clyde, Mr. Eden's Clio beat Mr. Bake's Vanish, Mr. Craven's Whip ran a bye, Mr. A. Graham's Arab beat Mr. Robinson's Norman, Mr. A. Graham's African beat Mr. Swainson's Sue, Mr. King's Harlequin beat Mr. Kaye's Gre nadier, Mr. H. Brown's Rose beat Mr. Harriot's Hornet, Mr. Garvin's Fly beat Mr. Chew's Spanker, Mr. Bake's Colonel ran a bye ; Mr. Swan's Soothsayer beat Mr. Chew's Elis; Mr. Garvin's Governess beat Mr. Bennett's Violet, Mr. Ball's Trifle beat Mr. Houghton's Capias, Mr. Jefferson's Hector beat Sir H. Campbell's Chancellor, Mr. Chew's Hmmus beat Mr. Harriot's Hindrance, Mr. Redish's Ranter beat Mr. King's Violet, Mr. Robinson's Brilliant ran a bye, Mr. Swainson's Smuggler beat Mr. Purcer's Primrose, Sir H. Campbell's Chanticleer beat Mr. Ogden's Co lumbine, Mr. Bake's Slenderman beat Mr. A. Graham's Tour Pret ; Mr. Rutter's Duchess beat Mr. Robinson's Pepper, Mr. B. Aiachell's Bugle beat Mr. Ridgway's Escape, Air. Swainson's Sul tana beat Mr. Redish's Robin, Mr. Bake's Major beat Mr. Graham's Lilly, Mr. Fisher's Smoker beat Mr. Crompton's Olympus, Mr. Rutter's Lottery beat Mr. Garvin's General, Mr. A. Graham's Charles Augustus beat Mr. Swan's Scroggins, Mr. Ogden's Ergot beat Mr. Hey's Conscivit, Mr. Fleetwood's Foam beat Dr. Brown's Ruby, Mr. A. Graham's East Kilbride beat Mr. Deakin's Queen, Mr. Houghton's Nelson beat Mr. Redish's Rib, Mr. Bennett's Runens beat Mr. Rutter's Fan, Mr. Redish's Rebecba beat Air. Machell's Dr. Fop, Alr. King's Pluto beat Sir H. Campbell's Ca meo ; Mr. Aiachell's Peter Pindar beat Mr. Horrock's Hypocrite, Harriot's Bugle Eye beat Mr. Fisher's Fan, Mr. Craven's Vandeau beat Mr. Parkinson's Swing, Alr. Houghton's Erico beat Mr. Hey's Hermia, Mr. Machell's Emperor beat Mr. Harriett's Hornsea, Mr. Rutter's Cornet beat Mr. Garvin's Graceful, Mr. Eden's Spring beat Mr. Hutchinson's Jig, Mr. Slater's Slim beat Mr. Scott's Spinner, Mr. Hunt's Nimrod beat Mr. Parkinson's Spring, Mr. Kaye's Sir Robert beat Mr Eden's Empress, Mr. Bennett's Ranger beat Mr. Gilbert's Fireaway, Mr. Clayton's Sul tan beat Mr. Eden's Vulcan, Mr. Parkinson's Lumber beat Mr. Jolly's Crafty, Mr. Eden's Lumber beat Mr. Swain's Sorcerer,' Mr. Hunt's Rector beat Mr. Deakin's Plenipo, Mr. Parkinson's; Venus beat Mr. King's Jupiter, Mr. Ball's Longitude beat Mr.' Gibbes's Giant, Mr. Clayton's Negro beat Mr. Houghton's Mouse,, Mr. Ball's Balloon beat Mr. Rutter's Wallace, Mr. Crompton's; General Chasse beat Mr. Ogden's Port, Mr. Swan's Stripling beat Dlr. Chew's Swallow, Mr. Hutchinson's Norwood beat Mr. Hunt's Sultan, Mr. Slater's Sparrow beat Mr. Gibbes's Cinnamon Mr. Bennett's Rocket beat Mr. Hargreave's Favourite, Mr. Og-, den's Talleyrand beat Mr. Ball's Blast, Mr. King's Active beat, Dlr. Deakin's Dart, Mr. Clayton's Pleader beat Mr . Parkinson's ( ' Fly, Mr. Clayton's Phcenix beat M r. Hunt's Nell Gw y nn., Mr.' Chew's Spring beat Mr. Deakin's Pickpocket. First Ties—Mundig beat Bob Sawyer, Chance beat Haphazard, Chancellor beat Banker, Fudge beat Rattler, Dancer beat Game boy, Sport beat Historian, Nelson beat Carlos, Roger beat Hope, t , Empress beat Spree, Logician beat Musquito, Chance beat Sailor, Sir Sidney beat Elis, Alajor (Mr. Gibbes's) beat Juno, Clio beat, Flirt, Arab beat Whip, African beat Harlequin, Rose beat Fly, Soothsayer beat Colonel, Governess beat Trifle, Hector beat lice nses, Ranter beat Brilliant, Smuggler beat Chanticleer, Slender man beat Duchess, Bugle beat Sultana, Major (Mr. Bake's) beat Smoker, Lottery beat Charles Augustus, Ergot beat Foam, East Kilbride beat Nelson, Rebecca beat Rubens, Peter Pindar beat Pluto, Bugle Eye beat Vandeau, Erico beat Emperor, Comet beat Spring, Nimrod beat Spencer, Fireaway beat Sir Robert, Sultan beat Lumber, Lumber (Mr. Eden's beat Rector, Longitude beat Venus, Negro beat Balloon, Strippling beat General Chasse, Nor wood beat Sparrow, Rocket beat Talleyrand, Pleader beat Active, Spring (Mr. Chew's) beat Phcenix. Second Ties—Chance (Dr. Brown's) beat Alundig, Chancellor beat Fudge, Sir Sidney beat Chance (Mr. Hunt's), Major (Mr. Gibbe's) beat Clio, Arab beat Rose, Soothsayer beat African, Hec tor beat Governess, Smuggler beat Ranter, Slenderman beat Bugle, Major (Mr. Bake's) beat Lottery, Ergot beat East Kilbride, Re becca beat Peter Pindar, Erico beat Bugle Eye, Comet beat Nim rod, Sultan beat Fireaway, Longitude beat Lumber, Negro beat Strippling (the latter broke his neck . in running), Rocket beat Norwood, Spring beat Pleader. Third Ties—Chancellor beat Chance (Dr. Brown's), Sport beat Nelson, Empress beat Sir Sidney, Arab beat Major (Mr. Gibbe's), beat Rebecca, a s t u r ta e n et b o e r, Er a, beat Comet, beat t,Lon Longitude ( iltuder beat Bake's), Erico tIN. Negro, Smuggler beat Slenderman, Rocket beat Spring. Fourth Ties—Chancellor beat Sport, Empress beat Arab, Smuggler beat Soothsayer, Sultan beat Longitude, Erico beat Ergot—Rocket ran a bye. Fifth Ties—Rocket beat Chancellor, Smuggler beat Empress, Sultan beat Erico. Sixth Ties—Rocket beat Smuggler—Sultan ran a bye. Deciding Course—Sultan (a Preston dog) beat Rocket, and won he Cup. BROADWAY STEEPLE CHASES.—TawnspAr. The first race was won by Mr. Vevers's Charity (Oliver), beat ing Mr. Marshall's Railroad, and some others.-3 to lon Rail road, who led to the last, where he fell, and lost the race. The second Sweepstakes was won by Mr. Walker's br. g. (Oli ver), beating Colon el Charritie's Crump, Mr. H ea l e y' s R am bl er , &c. Rambler had the race nearly to himself to the last wall, when, like Railroad, he fell and let in the br. g., who won rather cleverly. HUNT ;fOrma STEEPLE r.Gp a Sweeps t a k esC e h H t A to, sf S5GEsr move. vs ss i c . t hg n :), rgr Tuesday ;lN . iN l o rri last, s ,s Valentine over four miles a r . s ij on li ' , s Senex ; Mr. W. G. ' Parkinson's Red- Mr. Green's Jim Crow : Mr. Red hopper 0 ; i‘ C I E - r. L E E ni S p ma T n ls tl i e s ;imi‘poirr.tain3troroakcees. tsooAkiapdlaamcc; each, ocfht,with country beating added,ir. C Cook's andiosot k o ‘ r ,isa a sT n ,dr, Transport; p i W. C. "Whitworth 's Mazeppa ; Alr. , P. Codd's King Cole ; Mr. Tomkins's Neptune; Mr. Ferriby s Jerry ; Mr. T. N. Ship worth's The Abbess; A r lr. G. C. Healey's Sportsman ; Mr. C. H. Holdgate's M a dge M ildfire ; Mr. L. Holmes's Embassy ; Mr. G. Brown's Antel o p e ; and Mr. Thistlewood's The Miser. - It was an excellent and well-contested race, and was won with difficulty. ; ret , u r r id n a o y n , a lN t lo L n i ( t l t ay et t o o n A_s i c o ot, and meet Tuesday, at a l l t io i n i d i a n y d , er a c t iay S ; ist F on rid C a o y u , rt a ; t HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. Upton ; Thursday, at Hullarington ; o n Her The Wednesday,i‘i Duke nj.est of s a n t ' :11;1 th f e c o : h rb u t i ao nn ' s nr gd y h : Wednesday, at Park. Saturday, at Dyrliam Mr. Mure's hounds if 1 Bridge; Thurs- ' n's hounds on Tuesday, at Whittington Cagle ; s Head; Saturday, at Wolf's Head—at' half Thursday, at Qu een past 10. North Shropshire hounds on Tuesday, at Sundore ; Friday, at DedripPorlutinmabne,rs Arms— - ohial Tuesday,pLnosrtoastl.o at Geoyi ' hounds on Monday, at Allen Sadlers; Wednesday, day, at .e L H () Hinton s q S u a t . r 1 r a t r o y . Mr. Smythe O we ll. Mr. at Hampton Heath ; Friday, at Handley—half past 10. The Cheshire hounds on Monday, at Beeston Castle; Wednes day, at .Cholmondeley Castle ; Thursday, at Wilkesley Village ; Saturday. at Windmill on Rasensmoor—half-past 10. Sord Petrels hounds on Monday, at Rettendon Common ; Thurs day, at Purleigh ; Saturday, at Landon Hills—half-past 10. Mr. Lushington's hounds on Tuesday, at Milton Chapel-11. Meynell's hounds on Monday, at Toston ; Thursday, at Snelston ; Saturday at Chartley—half-past 10. The Marquis of Hastings' hounds on Monday, at Redwood Gate ; "Wednesday, at Leeke Pit House; Saturday, at Melbourn—half past 10. The Ludlow hounds on Tuesday, at Milsom Wood ; Friday at Oker-10. Mr. Wilkins's hounds on Monday, at Peterchurch ; Wednesday, at Kennel;' Friday, at Redspence—at 10. Major-General Wyndham's hounds on Monday, at Shillinglee }louse; 'Wednesday, at Pallinghurst Hill; Friday, at Oakhurst; Saturday, at the Fox, Flexham Park—half-past 10. Sir Thomas Boughey's hounds on Monday, at Kingston ; Wed nesday, at Knowlwell-gate, Trentham; Friday, at Apley—hf-p.lO. B. V. H. on T ues d ay at Woodbridge ; Friday, at Burton Common. TThhee Herefordshire h e o n un A d i s ee o day nl: a lo t n ‘ d i ay, at Wormelow Tump ; Thursday, at B err i ngton-10. ge;Wednes day, Saturday, at Oak Tree, Lee m i ng -l ane ; F r id ay , a t Carottod En erick at Thorn Per row —h a lf- past I v. Mr. Tud way ' s h oun d s on W e d nes d ay, at Ch ar lt on Musgrave ; at Batcombe Lod ge . Mr. He r l oc k' s h ounds on T ues d ay, at P o tt ern Wood ; Thurs day, at the Geo rge I nn , S an dy-lane ; Saturday, at Giddy Ha ll, Bridge; Marshfield-road—half-past 10. Mr. Bulteel's hounds on Tuesday, at Bittaford Bridge—half past 10. Mr. A. Smith's hounds on Monday, at Oare Hill ; Tuesday , at , Tedwerth H ouse ; Thursday, at Conholt Park ; Saturday, at Ever . leigh—at 11. Mr. Chandler's hounds on Monday, at the Cliffey ; Wednesday, at Monk Wood ; Friday, at Catheridge—half-past ten. The Warwickshire hounds on Monday, at Epwell White House Tuesday, at Mitford Bridge ; Thursday, at Rnd Hill, near Alcester —half-past nine ; Saturday, at Foss Farm—a quarter to 11. The Essex and Suffolk hounds on Tuesday, at Ardleigh Crown Friday, at Raydon—half.past 10. Eat' Fitzwilliam's hounds on Monday, at Washingley ; Wed, nesday, at Thrapston Bridge ; Thursday, at Sutton Wood—at 10. Lord Yarborough's hounds on Monday, at Hell Furxe ; Wednes day, at Elsham House ; Friday, at Kingerly Wood-11. his 151 vessels are now loading . at Liverpool for foreign p)rts.—Liverpool Telegraph, EASTERN SLAVE TRADE. Lord Brougham has published his speech on the Eastern Slave Trade, delivered on March 6, with the following dedi cation to the Duke of Wellington : TO ARTHUR DUKE OF WELLINGTON, K. G., &C. The uniform candour which guides your public conduct, and so often makes you sacrifice what ordinary men would reckon fair party advantages, induces me to hope that you will listen to the earnest entreaty which I now make, that will peruse the arguments and the statements of this spa ech with the attention certainly due to the subject, though not ,to the speaker. IF you do, I feel very confident that you will disposed to admit that your moving the previous question upon my resolutions last night was ill-considered ; and even if you should not arrive at this conclusion, I still entertain the most sanguine hope that a further attention to the subject will incline you to support the next proposition that may be brought forward upon the same matter. There is but one meaning of a previous question. It never can with propriety be moved unless when the original motion was held to be irresistible on its own merits. Consequently, no Ministry, ever before, with my knowledge, would consent to accept of an escape from a vote of censure by a proceeding which admits their guilt or their error, and only professes an unwillingness to condemn them. Unless the truth of the re solutions was undeniable, the previous question last night could have no meaning, and my motion should have been met vv th a direct negative. The eagerness with which the Ministers caught at your offer of letting them escape, censured in substance though without formal sentence pronounced against them, provided they would adopt and enact your plan themselves, was very remarkable. But this made no difference in their former conduct. Nay, all the regulation which they can make must leave the worst parts of their whole error untouched, because they make laws for the coast of Africa, or the settlement of foreign crowns. But if it is certain, nay, if it is admitted by yourself and others, that this order should not have been issued at all events without guards and precautions, surely it was not expecting too much to look for an expression of disapproval from Par liament when a measure for encouraging the slave-trade was brought before it. ;The character of the country, and its suc cess in all negociations on the foreign traffic, seemed impera tively to require that step. I have in this address to your Grace employed not the lan guage of panegyric, which you of all men, would the most desms , ', but the language of truth which you know well how to value. " The treachery which deceives is as criminal as that which would dethrone you"—was the memorable saying of the great French orator to a sovereign* who loved the treason of pleasing flattery more than the loyalty of unpala table truth. It is a thing of the utmost importance to the honour and in terest of the country, that one who stands in your pre-eminent position should, upon such a question as the slave-trade, have his eyes opened, in order that he may be found to side with all the other great statesmen of this age. March 7, 1838. BROUGHAM. Massillon.—" La perfidie qui vous trompe est aussi cri minelle quo cello qui vous detroneroit." THE VICTORIA. STEAM-SHIP. DREADFUL ACCIDENT. This vessel left her moorings off Blackwa 1 at about half past nine o'clock yesterday morning, to proceed down the river as far as the Nore, for the purpose of trying some expe riments in steam navigation, which the proprietors esteemed to be of the utmost importance. Lord G. Lennox, Mr. Wil liams, M. P., and many friends of the proprietors, including several ladies, were on board, and everything went on prospe rously till the vessel arrived off Erith. It is difficult to say at what rate the vessel was going through the water at this time. The hull itself was, perhaps, not moving at a greater rate than ten miles an hour when the calamity occurred. At this mo ment an explosion of one of the boilers, or of some tube con nected with them, took place. The noise of the explosion was not unlike the rumbling of suppressed thunder, or the growling which is said to precede an earthquake. It was ac companied by clowds of steam, vapour, and smoke, so dense that for several minutes it was impossible in theimmediate 'ighbourhood of the steam-engine to see your hand before you. No accident beyond a few bruises happened to anybody on deck, except to one of the Messrs. Hall, who, in jumping from the gangway, considerably hurt his le g . Within a few minutes it was ascertained that five of the men, engineers or stokers, were seriously hurt; one poor fel low was discovered lying dead amongst the coals, and in the engine-room were two others so dreadfully burnt and scalded that little hopes are entertained of their recovery ; another of the sufferers is scarcely less injured ; the two others are also much burnt and scalded—they were, however, able to stand. The scene upon deck was a fearful one. The sufferers, from the effects of the smoke, fire, and steam, were reduced to the appearance of negroes ; they were foaming at the mouth, and uttering groans of agony. Every assistance that could be ren dered to the wounded men was afforded them. Almost imme diately after the accident another steamer passed close to the Irictoria without offering the slightest assistance, or even in quiring the nature of the injury. The Vesper steamer shortly appeared in sight, was hailed, and ran alongside the crippled snip. The body of the dead man was taken in a boat to Erith ; the surviving sufferers were carried on board the Vesper, into which most of the passengers of the Victoria also got. When the Vesper arrived at Greenwich she ran alongside the Dreadnought hospital-ship, and there the unfor tunate men were immediately put on board. It is to be re gretted that very little hopes are held out by the surgeons on board tine Dreadnought of the recovery of three of the men. The opinion of a person thoroughly experienced in such things was, that the starboard boiler had burst near the bottom, and that the explosion had been horizontal ; in deed, had the upper part of the boiler or boilers burst, it must almost necessarily have driven the fragments of the engine and machinery upon deck, for the engine used on board the Vic . toria is what is called a " steeple" engine. It has not the long transverse horizontal beams which are generally in use, but works perpendicularly, so that the beams in working rise many feet above the deck. The writer of this notice was, at the mo ment of the explosion, upon the gangway, which passes across the vessel from one paddle-box to the other, within a foot and a half of those upright beams, examining the machinery ; he was in a moment almost stifled by the vapour and blinded by the smoke. Cries were resounding on ail sides, and every thing was in perfect darkness. To find the ladder by which to descend to the deck was impossible ; and he, with several others, was obliged, to prevent suffocation, to jump from the narrow plank on which they had been standing. The Vic toria is a remarkably fine vessel ; she is splendidly fitted up ; indeed, the appointments of the great cabin are almost like those of a palace ; she has a hundred beds or berths ; she is built of oak, African teak, and pitch pine ; her model is very fine ; she is nearly 1,000 tons burden, and upwards of 400 horse power; her length is 200 feet, breadth 30 feet, over the paddle-boxes 56 feet. She is to perform voyages from Lon don to Hull. • FURTHER PARTICULARS.—One of the unfortunate men, George Brock, a stoker, died on board the Dreadnought, hospital-ship, at half-past one o'clock. The other sufferers, whose names are William Allen, the chief engineer, Thomas Walker, the second engineer, and Joseph Robinson, stoker, were going on as favourably as could be expected when our reporter made inquiries. Allen was standing at the top of the companion or stairs leading to the engine-room when the ex plosion took place. A cry was raised at the same moment of Stop the engines." Unmindful of the danger, he rushed into the engine-room and was immediately exposed to the whole force of the steam. Although frightfully scalded he succeeded in stopping the engine and prevented further damage, as the steam was then blown off through the regular channels. Four other men, who were in the engine-room when the explosion took place, escaped unhurt. THE JET D'EAU AT THE ELE- PHANT AND CASTLE. On Friday afternoon, about three, the inhabitants in the vicinity of the Elephant and Castle, Newington Butts, and numerous passers by at those busy and crowded thorough fares were astonished by the singular spectacle of a column of water suddenly bursting forth at the corner of the New Kent-road, and rising to the surprising height of upwards of eighty feet. For about twenty minutes this magnifizant jet d'eau maintained an altitude of upwards of sixty or seventy feet. The cause is said to arise from the following circumstances :—A turncock in the employ of the Vauxhall Water Works Company, had been in the habit of leaving the keys, or turning implements, used for the main-pipe at a butcher's shop in the Kent-road. A plumber in the neighbourhood procured the keys, and turned off the main at a time when the Company's works, assisted by a new forty-five horse power steam engine, were in full ac tion, forcing the water to Dockhead, Rotherhithe, and the utmost limits of their extensive ramifications in that direction. Such was the resistance ere the catastrophe, that the action of the steam-engine was impeded full two minutes until, being taxed to its utmost power, a ferrule on the main pipe was forced out, thereby preventing the engine's destruction, and consequent demolition of the Company's works, with a loss of life and property that might have occurred to a frightful and incalculable extent. The consequence, however, was, that the whole body of water so forced, exceeding five tons per minute, fell on the Rockingham Arms, and the roofs of Messrs. Williams and Sons' extensive premises adjoining thereto, which latter were for the time completely submerged, and their valuable stock of mercery and drapery greatly damaged, and partially destroyed; the deluge in its progress carrying with it the ceilings throughout their buildings. On this sub ject the Correspondent of a Morning Paper makes the sub joined observations : " The magnificent jet d'eau at the Elephant and Castle, rising to the surprising height of upwards of 80 feat, shows what might be done in the way of forming jets d'eau in any of our public squares. Were the occupants of the surrounding houses in Grosvenor-square, Russell-square, or any other to join together and have a steam engine, of 20 horses power, erected in a concealed situation in some adjoining mews, such a jet might be produced as had not been seen previously to that of the Elephant and Castle. Such an engine need only work occasionally in the Spring and Summer, and only for five or six hours a day. A jet d'eau, even 40 feet high, in the centre of Trafalgar-square, would have a magnificent effect, ; especially in coming from Parliament-street." The Attorney-General for Ireland and Lord Mor peth transacted business yesterday at the Home Department. Yesterday afternoon the Rev. Win. Clayton left Mill-hill Academy (of which he was the theological tutor), accompanied by his eldest daughter, for the purpose of tak ing a walk, but they had only proceeded a very short distance when Mr. Clayton suddenly dropped down in an apoplectic fit, and expired without the utterance of a single word. LAW INTELLIGENCE. x r 7, ;1/ -* \ `\:,t:r COURT OF CHANCERY, MISCH 16. RHODES V. WARBURTON. This was a bill filed to establish the fact of a partnerahtlr' cit iSAI:CV between the late Dr. Warburton and Moses Rhodes, in car— rying on business as keepers of the lunatic asylum known by the name of the Red House, at Bethnal Green. His LORDSHIP gave his judgment, stating the facts of the case, and observing, that the sole question between the parties was whether there had been a partnership which entitled Rhodes to a fourth share of the profits of the establishment, or whether he was merely entitled, as Dr. Warburton alleged in his answer, to a quarterly payment, to be calculated on the amount of the receipts exceeding the expenditure. Conceiv ing that there was nothing to establish the prajer to enforce an account of the partnership, his Lordship's opinloi was that the bill ought to be dismissed ; and conceiving, more over, that the idea of establishing a partnership on the strength of the notice was an afterthought of the plaintiff. his Lord. ship also thought that the bill must be dismissed with costs. PREROGATIVE COURT, MARCH 16 WEBBER AND OTHERS V. BARROW. This was a suit respecting the validity of the will of Miss Jane Anne Barrow, late of Orchard-street, Portman-square, who died on the 14th of April, 1836. Dr. LUSHINGTON, on the part of the executors, contended that the deceased was a person of sound mind, and quite ca pable of making her will, but admitted her memory was much impaired by her great age, viz., 77 years. The QUEEN'S ADvocA TE, for Colonel Barrow and his chil dren, contended that the deceased was a person of very weak end imbecile mind. That she had always been so treated and considered by her sister, her family, and friends. They did not mean that she was decidedly intestable, but they contended she was incapable of making a will without assistance. That Court took time to consider its judgment. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, MARCH 16. Samuel Brown Harper wa opposed by Mr. James Peters, a jeweller, at Cambridge. He was supported by Mr. Cooke. The insolvent, a young man, was described as an under graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, and an author ; his debts were somewhat considerable, and he had been engaged in bill transactions. His insolvency was ascribed to the com mon cause, of his expenditure exceeding his income, in the shape of an allowance from his father. It appeared that for about 1,2001. of bills which a gentleman named Plumer had paid, the insolvent had received from, he said, a money-lender about 4001. Mr. Peters was rather surprised at such a statement. Mr. Commissioner Maims was not at all surprised, after the cases that had occurred in that Court. The insolvent admitted that in about two years he had up wards of 300/. wcrth of clothes. Mr. Nugee was one of his tailors. Mr. Peters was any ions to know what bad become of his wardrobe, and the inscivent said he had " worn them out." lie had not pawned any, but had parted with some for a dog at Cambridge. Mr. Commissioner HARRIS---Are we to understand, Sir, that in two years you have worn out r;early 300/. worth of clothes? —( A laugh.) The insolvent said such was the case. Mr. Commissioner HARRIS—And do you mean to say that you have not pawned any, and only have the clothes allowed you by the Court? The insolvent declared that be had none reserved. From his examination it was elicited that he had about two hun dred books at Cambridge, some plate, furniture, &c. ; some books he had sold at Cambridge, others he had pawned in London for 101. He also received 301. on plate, and other sums he had received from the same source. Mr. Commissioner Hams said the case resolved itself into an account of the pawnbroker's duplicates ; he should require evidence on that point before he would discharge tho insolvent_ The case stood adjourned for that purpose. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. MAIDSTONE, MARCH 16. Samuel Kennard, aged sixty-five, was indicted for the wil ful murder of William Knight, by discharging at him a loaded gun, at Cranbrook, on the 25th of February last. Mr. Deeds appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Clarkson for the defence. Mr. DEEDS stated the case at considerable length, and ad verted to the long and intimate friendship which had existed between the unfortunate prisoner and the deceased ( Mr. Knight). He would not impute to the prisoner that he in tended to shoot the person alluded to, but that he had been the cause of his death there could be no doubt. The prisoner is a farmer at Cranbrook, and, unhappily, too much addicted to intoxicating liquors ; and it would appear that, on the unfor tunate Sunday when the occurrence took place, he had been freely indulging in the propensity to which he had made allu sion ; but he did not mention this with the view of prejudging the prisoner. The Learned Gcatleaian then gave a cursory detail of the facts. John Knight, the son of the deceased, stated that his father lived at Kinardington, 14 miles from Cranbrook. On the 15ih February he saw his father at home, which he left at three in the afternoon with some wild fowls, part of which he was about to take as a present to the prisoner. He said he should re turn next day at noon. The prisoner is a farmer, living at Milkhouse-street, a hamlet belonging to Cranbrook. The prisoner had been very friendly and kind to his father. By Mr. CLARKSON—His father spoke of the prisoner fami liarly Old Sammy Kennard. He had lent his father money, and sheltered him when sick. Mr. Datson, the High Constable, saw the prisoner at the beer-shop, in the course of the day, when he said, " Well, I suppose you want me." Witness said, "No ; I want to know how this poor man came by his death." The prisoner replied, " I have done what I meant to do, and you may hang me directly if you like. I have been annoyed many times by persons throwing stones at my house, and calling me up." This was about eight in the morning, and the prisoner seemed a little " elevated" by drink. Robert Wood was servant to the prisoner at the time of this melancholy transaction, and lived in the house. Went to bed about eight o'clock on the Sunday in question, and left his master up. After he had been asleep some time, his mis tress came and woke him up. Saw his master afterwards at the bottom of the stairs which he came down after him. Went round the house, and there found a man lying. Thinks a gun fired from the prisoner's window might reach the spot where the dead body lay. The case for the prosecution having closed, Mr. CLARKSON addressed the jury on behalf of the prisoner. He complimented his Learned Friend (Mr. Deeds), for the temperate manner in which he had opened the case, and conducted the prosects tion throughout, but yet be had an anxious duty to perform, for the life of the prisoner depended upon the verdict which would be that day pronounced. The jury had heard of the darkness of the night, and they would remember that the gun was not fired in the direction from whence the noise at the door proceeded—a proof that he only intended to alarm, and not to injure any one, much less kill his friend, one to whom he bad shown constant kindness. That a homicide had been committed he would not deny, and he trusted that upon that view of the case the verdict would be founded. The Jury, without hesitation, returned a verdict—" Guilty of Manslaughter." After a short interval the Learned JUDGE addressed the aged prisoner and said, the judgment of the Court was, that he bo transported beyond the seas for the term of his natural life. The prisoner was a man of wealth, and several of his re spectable relatives were in Court during the trial, and their distress at bearing his fate was most poignant. NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—YoRK, MARCH 15. Robert Lowther was indicted for the wilful murder of Rylah Richardson, at Ferry Bridge, on the 12th of November last. After hearing evidence, the Jury brought in a verdict.— Guilty of Manslaughter.—To be transported for life. Four of the Bradford Poor-law rioters pleaded Guilty, and were sentenced to one month's imprisonment in York Castle_ OXFORD CIRCUIT—STAFFORD, MARCH 12. Ann Wycherley, aged 28, was charged with the wilful murder of Ann Wycherley, her daughter, a child aged about three years, by drowning her. Mr. William Crutchley—l am governor of the workhouse at Drayton. In December last the prisoner was in the work house with her two children, Anne, who was three years old, and Jane, who was a year old. She left the workhouse with both her children on the 14th of December. William Poole—l was a servant of Mr. Butler. There is a pit in one of his fields, with water a yard deep in it. I saw something in the water, and thinking it was a child I called my master, and we took it out. It was a girl about three years old. Mr. Crutchley recalled—l saw the body of the deceased, and at once knew that it was the prisoner's eldest child. The prisoner said, after she was apprehended, that she should not have done it if she had not been persuaded. She afterwards said that she threw the child into the pit, and that another person threw stones on it when in the pit. Catherine Biffin—l knew the prisoner in Drayton work house. The prisoner, when leaving the house, said no person knew what was in her head, but before three weeks every per son might know it. • She said she would kill the child, and not fall into sin any more for the child. Mr. Baron GURNEY summed up the evidence. Verdict— Guilty. Mr. Baron GURNEY proceeded to pass sentence of death upon the prisoner, without leaving her the slightest hope of mercy being extended to her. Mr. Bellamy, the Clerk of Assize, then asked the prisoner if she had anything to say in stay of execution? To which the prisoner replied that she was enceinte. Mr. Baron GURNEY directed that a jury of matrons should be sworn, and they, after being absent a quarter of an hour, returned into the Court, and after hearing the evidence of Mr. Greatorex, the surgeon, who gave it as his opinion that the prisoner was not enceinte, they returned a verdict accordingly. The Charge d'Affaires from Austria transacted business yesterday at the Board of Trade. The following Nolllemen and Gentlemen have already expressed their intention to attend the dinner in cele bration of the return of Lord Teignmouth to Parliament, which will be got up in a very magnificent style :—The Earl of Win_ chelsea, Lord Beresford, Lord Col ville, Lord Ken y on, Lord Ernest Bruce, Sir Francis Burdett, Captain Thomas Wood, M. P. ; The Chisholm, M. P. : Lord Loftus, Lord Courtown, Earl of Bandon, Lord Cole. — Morning Post. M. Van de Weyer, the Belgian Minister, transacted business with the President of the Board of Trade, yesterday. Captain Polley, of the Trinity House, also transacted business, and Sir Robert Price, M. P., had an interview, with the President. Sr ~~, N 4.4`